| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Palaeoecology of Africa : international yearbook of landscape evolution and palaeoenvironments ; v. 30 |
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Palaeoecology of Africa ; v. 30.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. How it all began -- Eduard Van Zinderen Bakker and Palaeoecology of Africa / Klaus Heine -- ch. 2. Reconstructing environmental changes since the last glacial maximum (LGM) in the Geba Basin, Northern Ethiopia, by geomorphic process interpretation and land management evaluation / Jan Moeyersons [and others] -- ch. 3. Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert environments : the Namib case / Klaus Heine -- ch. 4. A sedimentary record of environmental change at Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, Northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana / Andrew H. Ivester [and others] -- ch. 5. Ecosystem change during MIS 4 and early MIS 3 : evidence from middle Stone Age sites in South Africa / Grant Hall & Stephan Woodborne -- ch. 6. The potential of poaceae, cyperaceae and restionaceae phytoliths to reflect past environmental conditions in South Africa / Carlos E. Cordova & Louis Scott -- ch. 7. Topographic and hydrologic control of gully erosion phenomena in palaeolandscapes of Swaziland, Southern Africa / Samanta Pelacani & Michael Märker -- ch. 8. Gypsum in desert soils, subsurface crusts and host sediments (Western desert of Egypt) / Ashraf Mohamed, Konrad Rögner & Sixten Bussemer -- ch. 9. New findings from geological, geomorphological and sedimentological studies on the palaeoenvironmental conditions in Southern Cameroon / Mark Sangen [and others] -- ch. 10. Palaeoclimate of Ondiri Swamp, Kikuyu, Kenya, from 1.350 TO 1.810 A.D. 189 / Julian A. Ogondo, Daniel O. Olago & Eric O. Odada -- ch. 11. A cluster-analysis-based climate classification for N.E. Africa / Brigitta Schütt, Katharina Ducke & Jan Krause -- ch. 12. Climate and palaeoenvironment evolution in North Tropical Africa from the end of the tertiary to the upper quaternary / Jean Maley -- ch. 13. An assessment of the spatial and temporal distribution of natural hazards in Central Africa / Ine Vandecasteele, Jan Moeyersons & Philippe Trefois |
| Summary |
This 30st jubilee volume (2010) of "Palaeoecology of Africa" looks back and reflects the "state of the art" of what is actually known on former African climates and ecosystems in the format of review articles authored by specialists in the field. New research articles on climate and ecosystem dynamics as well as applied topics on geomorphic hazards and future environmental trends in Africa are included. This book will be of interest to all concerned with ecosystems dynamics, tropical forests, savannahs, deserts and related development problems of third world countries, especially ecologists, botanists, earth scientists (e.g. Quaternary and recent climate change), regional planners. It will also be valuable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates as a reference for review and overview articles as well as a source of information for new original manuscripts and reviews on the state of the art of long term and Quaternary and Holocene landscape evolution esp. in subsaharan Africa. Palaeobotanists, Palynologists and Quaternarists will equally find this edition useful for their work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Paleoecology -- Africa
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Geomorphology -- Africa
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Landscape changes -- Africa
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NATURE -- Animals -- Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Ecology
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Geomorphology
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Landscape changes
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Paleoecology
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Runge, Jürgen
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| ISBN |
9780203845271 |
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0203845277 |
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0429206232 |
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9780429206238 |
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1136926038 |
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9781136926037 |
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